Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Under the Equality Act 2010 we must ensure we do not unlawfully discriminate in our service delivery and make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities where necessary. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility and usability of our site.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Headings: Some headings don’t cascade inside some features on some web pages

Background/foreground contrast: Pages do not meet the minimum specified contrast ratio between the background and the foreground of text and images (ratio of 3:1 for hyperlinks or a ratio of 4.5:1 for everything else).

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs/documents: Many of our older PDF documents don’t meet accessibility standards and may not be marked up so they’re accessible to a screen reader. The accessibility regulations don’t require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23rd September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

We intend to resolve these issues by September 2020.

How we test the site

We re-assess the website for accessibility whenever it undergoes a major modification.
Most page content is checked each time that it is updated.